Barney Traynor

Bernard Philip "Barney" Traynor (November 24, 1894 August 26, 1980)[1] was a player in the National Football League for the Milwaukee Badgers in 1925 as a center. He played at the collegiate level at Colgate University.

Biography

Traynor was born on November 24, 1896 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.[2] While football line coach and freshman basketball coach at Michigan State College from 1925–27, Traynor wrote a lyric to music by Gaetano Donizetti, the Sextet from his opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, which is now the Michigan State University alma mater, MSU Shadows.[3]

gollark: But I'm listed as invisible.
gollark: !pingwhen online <@!258639553357676545>
gollark: !pingwhen online <@!258639553357676545>
gollark: Scroll fast enough and you'll go back in time to before the messages were deleted!
gollark: >”E>$!"4

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